Crystal, Fire and Water

By Joanna Gawn

Joanna Gawn and Ron Dickerson, authors of The Lazuli Portals series, have brought together some of their shorter works in this small ebook. If you’ve not read their other books, or their blog or newsletter, then this little anthology offers you the chance to get acquainted!

With stories (and a few poems) ranging from 100 to 1500 words, this collection is ideal for reading during a coffee break, or when you don’t have much time to spare.

Shorter stories include:

Yin and Yang

The Crystal Cave

The Day Edward Met Helene

Sun, Sea and Sphinx

A Cordello Memory

The Angel Thinks

This book also contains four longer stories of around 1000-1500 words:

The Restoration of Conover House

Delights of the Dart

Sunrise

The Haunting of Melton Grange

• Language: English
• Publisher: Joanna Gawn
• Release date: Jun 12, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301952502

Joanna Gawn

Joanna Gawn and Ron Dickerson are two best friends writing as The Lazuli Portals. They ♥ storytelling, reading, crystals, music, sci-fi, chocolate, cats and France. :) Joanna is also an energy-healing practitioner. She is very organised and loves spreadsheets. She also enjoys spending time in natural landscapes such as Dartmoor and Brittany, and visiting National Trust gardens. She and her husband are owned by two cats, Daisy and Bertie. Joanna is a chocoholic, and is also partial to cake and Breton cidre. Ron is a Cornishman with a background in rugby, business and Round Table/Rotary; perhaps not the expected connections for writing spiritual adventure novels! He has a deep love of books and superb writing. Ron is an intuitive natural healer (and also a natural comedian!) He and his wife also have two cats. Writing their first novel, The Cordello Quest, was a life-changing experience, and now Jo and Ron can’t stop writing! The sequel, Mosaic of Light, is well underway, with 97000 words to its name. Jo and Ron also write short stories (their ebooks The House of the Stormwind and Crystal, Fire and Water are both available), as well as flash fiction and poetry.

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Crystal, Fire and Water

An Introduction to

The Lazuli Portals

Joanna Gawn

with

Ron C. Dickerson

© 2013 Joanna Gawn

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Introduction

What this book is . . . and what it is not

At its heart, this book is an introduction to the work of Joanna Gawn and Ron Dickerson, two best friends who write and publish as The Lazuli Portals.

When we began writing together, our aim was to write a story we wanted to read – this evolved into our first novel, The Cordello Quest. Committing the first words to paper unleashed the long-suppressed passion we share for writing – and now storytelling is as essential to us as breathing!

Joining a local Writers’ Circle has meant that we regularly produce 1000-word short stories (some far longer). Together with the tiny tales we write when taking part in Friday Fictioneers (published on our blog) and for our Creations Newsletters, we have begun to acquire quite a lot of material!

Our first anthology of short stories, The House of the Stormwind, was published in March 2013, and a second compilation is underway. At the time of writing, we are also completing the first draft of our second Lazuli Portals novel: Mosaic of Light.

We wanted to offer you a book completely free of charge, something that will enable those of you unfamiliar with our work to have a taste, and to see if you like the flavour . . . this is that book.

Whether you like the 100-word flash fiction tales, the slightly longer 300- to 400-word stories or the 1000-word short stories (or even all of them!), we hope there is something here that you will enjoy. 

NOTE:

Some of these pieces – those in the flash fiction category - have been published on our blog, along with the photographs that inspired them. Therefore those tiny tales are already visible to anyone who happens to visit us there.

The Creations stories and poems have only been published to those on our mailing list.

The short stories are brand new.

CONTENTS

Creations and a Bitesize Tale

Three Matches

Dancing Light

The Crystal Cave

Yin and Yang

Flash Fiction ~ fourteen solo or duet tales of around 100 words or less

Moon and Sky

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